Martin Kreitman Explained

Martin Kreitman
Workplaces:University of Chicago
Harvard University
Stony Brook University
University of Florida
Alma Mater:Harvard University (PhD)
University of Florida
Stony Brook University (undergraduate)
Thesis Title:Nucleotide Sequence Variation of Alcohol dehydrogenase in Drosophila melanogaster
Thesis Url:http://search.proquest.com/docview/303271509
Thesis Year:1983
Doctoral Advisor:Richard Lewontin[1] [2]
Known For:McDonald–Kreitman test
Awards:MacArthur Fellows Program (1991)

Martin Edward Kreitman is an American geneticist at the University of Chicago,[3] [4] most well known for the McDonald–Kreitman test that is used to infer the amount of adaptive evolution in population genetic studies.

Education

Kreitman graduated from Stony Brook University with a Bachelor of Science degree Biology in 1975, and from the University of Florida with a Master of Science degree in Zoology, in 1977. He went on to study at Harvard University, graduating with a Ph.D. in Population Genetics, specifically Nucleotide Sequence Variation of Alcohol dehydrogenase in Drosophila melanogaster[5] in 1983.[6]

Research

The Kreitman lab does research in four main areas:[7] [8] [9] [10]

Awards and honors

Recent publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: On the 30th Anniversary of DNA Sequencing in Population Genetics | I wish you'd made me angry earlier . 2013-08-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130824114513/http://caseybergman.wordpress.com/2013/08/04/on-the-30th-anniversary-of-dna-sequencing-in-population-genetics/ . dead .
  2. Keith . T. P. . Riley . M. A. . Kreitman . M. . Martin Kreitman. Lewontin . R. C. . Richard Lewontin. Curtis . D. . Chambers . G. . Sequence of the structural gene for xanthine dehydrogenase (rosy locus) in Drosophila melanogaster . Genetics . 116 . 1 . 67–73 . 1987 . 10.1093/genetics/116.1.67 . 3036646 . 1203122.
  3. Web site: Bio . pondside.uchicago.edu. 2021-01-05.
  4. Web site: Martin Kreitman | Recovery Act Funding | the University of Chicago.
  5. PhD . Martin Edward. Kreitman . Nucleotide Sequence Variation of Alcohol dehydrogenase in Drosophila melanogaster . Harvard University . 1983 . Martin Kreitman. .
  6. Web site: University of Chicago - Molecular Biosciences . 2010-04-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100610080101/http://molbio.bsd.uchicago.edu/Faculty_and_Research/01_Faculty_Alphabetically.php?faculty_id=88 . 2010-06-10 .
  7. Kreitman . M. . Nucleotide polymorphism at the alcohol dehydrogenase locus of Drosophila melanogaster . 10.1038/304412a0 . Nature . 304 . 5925 . 412–417 . 1983 . 6410283. 1983Natur.304..412K . 4348580 .
  8. McDonald . J. H. . Kreitman . Martin. Martin Kreitman. 10.1038/351652a0 . Adaptive protein evolution at the Adh locus in Drosophila . Nature . 351 . 6328 . 652–654 . 1991 . 1904993. 1991Natur.351..652M . 205024070 .
  9. Hudson . R. R. . Kreitman . M. . Aguadé . M. . A test of neutral molecular evolution based on nucleotide data . Genetics . 116 . 1 . 153–159 . 1987 . 10.1093/genetics/116.1.153 . 3110004 . 1203113.
  10. Kreitman . Martin. Martin Kreitman. 10.1146/annurev.genom.1.1.539 . Methods to detect selection In populations with applications to the human . Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics . 1 . 539–559 . 2000 . 11701640. free .
  11. Web site: Faculty of 1000 | About . www.f1000biology.com . 20 July 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20040708171633/http://www.f1000biology.com/about/members/8008 . 8 July 2004 . dead.
  12. Web site: IGSB senior fellow Martin Kreitman named fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences « News & Events « Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology . www.igsb.org . 20 July 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100911233529/http://www.igsb.org/news/martin-kreitman-named-fellow-of-the-american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences/ . 11 September 2010 . dead.